Definitions
Etymologies
- fathom (“nautical length measurement used for depth”) + -meter (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The fathometer was the only operable piece of equipmentdespite having stopped working briefly right after the attackbut the depth finder could do little to guide the injured Liberty.”
“The ships fathometer, which for a while only functioned on the hundred-fathom scale, revealed the Liberty entering shallow waters.”
“A fathometer and a compass were bolted to the overhead.”
“She was cranky that night, steaming the Kattegat with her sonar and fathometer down.”
“Swanson nodded, pursed his lips, and walked away to examine the ice fathometer.”
“All he would have to do is drop down, come under us here, start a grid search with his ice fathometer, and it would be only minutes before he located the relatively thin ice out in that lead there.”
“Since there's no desperate hurry, I'd rather wait till we got the ice fathometer operating again, make an accurate survey of this lead then fire a torpedo up through the middle.”
“Our downward eye is the fathometer, or echo-sounder, which tells us just how deep the water below our keel is and as we have about five thousand feet of water below our keel at this particular spot, we're hardly likely to bump into underwater projections and its use right now is purely a formality.”
“Farther aft, a man at the surface fathometer was reading out ice-thickness figures in a quiet, unemotional voice.”
“We settled gradually, in a maddeningly deliberate slow motion, the fathometer needle hardly appearing to move.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fathometer’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fustilarian, fusillation, fustian, futurology, fusiform, futurition, fusee, fuscous, fusain, furunculoid, futtock, furibund and 418 more...
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lesser-known instruments of measurement
rulers, protractors, thermometers, and odometers are not all there is…
odynometer, algometer, hygrometer, anemometer, viameter, æsthesiometer, conchometer, derivometer, deformeter, dolorimeter, string-galvanometer, adipometer and 25 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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gleaned words
found words, that haven't found their proper place yet.
juggernaut, panopticon, superfluous, verfremdung, aleatory, googlewhack, palimpsest, petrosomatoglyph, epibiont, solipsism, zugzwang, ubiquitous and 500 more...
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fbharjo fathom that! Sep 4, 2010
chained_bear "Then there was the fathometer, an instrument that constantly reminded the navigator of the depth of the water over which he was sailing. Tonight the water was deep. In fact the Indianapolis had just passed a few miles north of the Challenger Deep—the deepest spot in any ocean of the world."
—Thomas Helm, Ordeal by Sea: The Tragedy of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, 1963 (New York: Signet, 2001), 35 Nov 14, 2008